An ugly Michelangelo portrait? It may not be his
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By Megan GannonLiveScienceMichelangelo's portrait of Cleopatra holding an asp to her breast has been celebrated as an ideal Renaissance composition of an idealized woman. With pearls, braided hair and a slender neck, the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt faces her death by snakebite with a detached, elegant gaze.Curators had suspected there was another Michelangelo sketch on the black-chalk drawing's ...